Matthew McConaughey Trademarking Himself Saying 'Alright, Alright, Alright' Is a Preview of Hollywood’s Coming AI Identity Crisis
Matthew McConaughey has trademarked his iconic "alright, alright, alright" line and related video clips as a pre‑emptive shield against AI‑generated deepfakes. The move highlights the gap in current right‑of‑publicity laws, which vary by jurisdiction and are ill‑suited for protecting digital likenesses. Hollywood’s response includes SAG‑AFTRA’s 2023 strike gains, securing consent and compensation clauses for AI use. Yet studios continue to experiment with synthetic doubles, underscoring an industry‑wide identity crisis as AI tools become capable of cloning celebrity voices and faces.
Meta Is Shutting Down Its Horizons VR for Businesses - I Doubt It Will Be Missed
Meta announced it will retire Horizon Workrooms, its business‑focused VR collaboration app, on 16 February 2026 and cease sales of commercial Quest headsets by 20 February 2026. The move signals a strategic pivot toward artificial‑intelligence initiatives while keeping its consumer‑oriented VR lineup intact. Meta...
ChatGPT Saved Me From a Roadside Nightmare — This Is Exactly What We Should Be Using AI for, Not for...
In a recent TechRadar opinion piece, a driver used ChatGPT’s multimodal capabilities to diagnose a mysterious 19 mph speed‑limiter warning on his dashboard. By uploading a photo, the AI instantly identified the feature, guided him to the correct button, and restored...
How People Use ChatGPT – Analysis of OpenAI’s First User Study
OpenAI released its inaugural user study, "How People Use ChatGPT," detailing how individuals and organizations integrate the model into daily workflows. The research, blending surveys, anonymized usage data, and interviews, finds that roughly a third of interactions are work‑related, with...
Apple Notes Could Become My Go-To Life Organizer with This Big iOS 26.4 Upgrade
Apple is set to upgrade its Notes app in the upcoming iOS 26.4 release, embedding Google Gemini’s generative AI through Siri. The integration will let users generate notes, add shopping‑list items, and pull data from Safari or Mail without manual copy‑pasting....
How Human Motion Is Fueling the Robot Revolution — by Teaching Robots Like Atlas to Move in Lifelike Ways
At CES 2026 Boston Dynamics showcased Atlas performing fluid, human‑like motions, from martial‑arts stances to precise squats. The company captures human movement using Xsens motion‑capture suits or VR controllers, then retargets the data to the robot’s unique kinematics. In simulation,...
'Society Cannot Function if No One Is Accountable for AI' — Jaron Lanier, the Godfather of Virtual Reality, Discusses How...
Jaron Lanier, the virtual‑reality pioneer, argues that AI systems must remain under human accountability in the second episode of the new podcast *The Ten Reckonings*. He warns that delegating responsibility to machines would undermine law and civilization. The discussion references recent...
5 Signs that ChatGPT Is Hallucinating
The article outlines five tell‑tale signs that ChatGPT is hallucinating, from overly specific details without sources to outright nonsense logic. It explains how the model’s predictive nature can generate confident yet fabricated information, including bogus citations and contradictory follow‑ups. Readers...
Companies Confess Their Agentic AI Goals Aren't Really Working Out - and a Lack of Trust Could Be Why
A Camunda report finds 73% of firms see a gap between their agentic AI ambitions and actual deployment, with only 11% of use cases reaching production last year. Business risk, transparency and regulatory concerns dominate the hesitation, even as 71%...
‘In AI Models, the Real Bottleneck Isn’t Computing Power — It’s Memory’: Phison CEO on 244TB SSDs, PLC NAND, Why...
Phison CEO Pua Khein Seng argues that memory, not GPU compute, is the primary bottleneck for AI inference, especially for time‑to‑first‑token performance. The company’s aiDAPTIV+ technology treats high‑capacity SSDs as an extension of DRAM, offloading KV‑cache data to flash and...
I’m a Backup and Recovery Provider, but Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Just Trust Me
In operational technology (OT) environments, a green check on a backup dashboard is often mistaken for a guarantee of recoverability, yet legacy systems and custom hardware make true restoration far more complex. Without continuous testing, backups can hide data corruption,...
Spotify Denies It’s Pushing Unwanted AI Slop Onto Subscribers, Claiming It ‘Does Not Promote or Penalize Tracks Created Using AI...
Spotify has refuted claims that it pushes AI‑generated songs to listeners, stating it neither promotes nor penalizes tracks created with AI tools. The streaming giant points to its September rollout of spam filters, impersonation enforcement, and industry‑standard AI disclosures as...
Fender Is Bringing Its Play Learning Platform to TVs for the First Time, in Partnership with Samsung
Fender is expanding its Play video‑based learning platform to Samsung smart TVs, launching globally in 2026 across 49 countries. The partnership is exclusive, positioning the app as a native TV experience with a new "jam mode" that adds Dolby Atmos...
Businesses Are Losing Control of AI - and Bosses Are Starting to Despair
A Dataiku survey reveals that half of senior British data leaders think more than half of their workforce is using generative‑AI tools without approval, a phenomenon dubbed “shadow AI.” 90% of those leaders flag data‑integration and proprietary‑data access as their...
PC Sales Set for a 2026 Downturn as Memory Demand Hits Other Devices
Analysts at Omdia warn that global PC shipments could contract in 2026 despite a 9.2% year‑over‑year rise in 2025, as memory component costs surge. Mainstream DDR memory prices jumped about 70% in 2025 and are expected to climb another 50%...
“2026 Is the Year We Expect to See the AI PC Crossover” - AMD Head Tells Us Why This Will...
AMD predicts 2026 will be the breakout year for AI‑enabled PCs, expecting them to sell more units than traditional PCs. At CES, Jason Banta highlighted the accelerating adoption of mini PCs as a practical entry point for AI workloads, noting...
1Password Launches Unified Access as a One-Stop Shop for Managing Company Credentials – Say Goodbye to Shadow IT and SaaS...
1Password announced Unified Access, a new feature in its Extended Access Management suite that combines the Enterprise Password Manager and SaaS Manager. The solution lets IT discover, control and audit both SSO and non‑SSO credentials from a single dashboard, reducing...
AI Browsers Are Creating a New Governance Gap
AI‑enhanced browsers are embedding large‑language‑model capabilities directly into everyday workflows, turning the browser into an invisible assistant. This shift creates a new form of shadow AI that bypasses traditional IT detection because interactions appear as ordinary browsing. Employees increasingly rely...
"Slackbot Isn’t Just Another Copilot or AI Assistant - It’s the Front Door to the Agentic Enterprise" - Salesforce's New...
Salesforce has made Slackbot, its AI‑powered conversational assistant, generally available to Business+ and Enterprise+ customers, expanding the Dreamforce 2025 preview into a production feature. Slackbot links Slack conversations with Salesforce records and third‑party apps such as Google Drive, enabling it...
'Small Decisions Have Long Tails' – I Asked ChatGPT for My Horoscope, and What It Told Me Was Surprisingly Grounding
TechRadar writer tested ChatGPT’s ability to write a personal horoscope, using the writer’s birth date as input. The model produced a nuanced, metaphor‑rich reading that highlighted Pluto, Saturn and Jupiter transits while offering concrete productivity and relationship advice. This exercise...
Plucky Startup Bolt Graphics Still Wants to Use RISC-V to Compete with Nvidia, AMD in AI and Beyond — and...
Bolt Graphics, a Sunnyvale startup, is advancing its Zeus GPU built around a RISC‑V processor that doubles as a general‑purpose CPU, positioning the card as a standalone Linux system. The architecture replaces traditional shader‑heavy designs with fixed‑function rasterization, ray tracing...
Bye Bye MLC: QLC and TLC to Be Dominant SSD Technologies Amidst AI's Ravenous Appetite for NAND — and PLC...
The NAND flash market is rapidly shifting away from multi‑level cell (MLC) technology toward triple‑level cell (TLC) and quad‑level cell (QLC) architectures as AI and data‑intensive workloads drive demand for higher density at lower cost. Samsung’s planned exit from MLC...
Discord Stopped Working in Egypt – and Proton VPN Records Massive Usage Spike
Discord became inaccessible across major Egyptian ISPs over the weekend, indicating a likely state‑imposed block. The outage prompted a dramatic response, with Proton VPN reporting a 103% jump in free sign‑ups on Saturday and overall usage climbing to more than...
This World-First Bird Feeder Cam with 360-Degree View Sees All in 6K, and I Can't Wait to Try It in...
Birdfy introduced the Feeder Vista at CES 2026, a world‑first 360‑degree bird‑feeder camera delivering 6K video, 120 fps slow‑motion, and 14 MP stills. The device uses a bottom‑up air‑pump seed system and an airtight antibacterial container to keep feed fresh, while precision weight...
Micron Announces a QLC SSD Just Weeks After Killing Its Beloved Crucial Brand — the 3610 Is a Basic Gen5...
Micron unveiled the 3610, a PCIe Gen5 QLC SSD, at CES 2026, marking its first Gen5 G9 QLC client drive and the first single‑sided M.2 2230 offering up to 4 TB. The drive claims sequential reads up to 11 GB/s and writes up to 9.3 GB/s, with...
Liquid Cooling vs Air Cooling: The Five Key Differences for Data Centers
Data centers now consume about 1.5% of global electricity, and AI‑driven workloads are set to double demand by 2030. Traditional air‑cooling struggles with rising power density, prompting a shift toward liquid cooling, which can remove heat up to 3,000 times...
From ‘Vibe Coding’ to ‘Vibe Selling’: How AI Is Reshaping the Art of Selling
The article introduces “vibe selling,” an AI‑driven approach that offloads repetitive sales tasks such as email drafting, account research, and conversation analysis to intelligent tools. By embedding AI directly into the sales workflow, reps receive real‑time insights, opportunity flags, and...
Asus Vies for Fastest Mini PC Ever with Panther Lake NUC 16 Pro — B390 GPU Inside the Core Ultra...
Asus unveiled the NUC 16 Pro at CES 2026, targeting the fastest mini‑PC class with Intel’s Panther Lake platform and the Core Ultra X9 388H processor. The system delivers up to 180 TOPS of AI compute and integrates Intel’s Arc B390 iGPU, which, while strong for an integrated solution,...
Why CTEM Is the Answer to Boardroom Pressure and Security Fatigue
A recent CISO Pressure Index survey shows 73% of CISOs faced a major incident in six months, with 58% occurring despite existing tools. Executives are frustrated by endless alerts, leading to boardroom pressure and security fatigue. Organizations are adopting Continuous...
‘We’re Redefining Eyewear on a Really High Level. I Like to Use a Camera Analogy: Fixed Focus, Manual Focus, and...
Finnish startup IXI unveiled the world’s first autofocusing eyeglasses at CES 2026, featuring liquid‑crystal tunable lenses that adjust focus automatically based on eye‑tracking. The device combines a normal‑looking frame with a 35 mAh battery delivering roughly 18 hours of use, weighing just 22 grams....
I Used Meta’s Neural Band to Control a Car’s Screen in a Garmin Concept, and It Kind of Rocked, but...
Garmin showcased its Unified Cabin concept at CES 2026, featuring a prototype in‑vehicle system that integrates Meta’s Neural Band for gesture control of the car’s display. The wrist‑worn band detects finger movements via electrical signals and provides subtle haptic feedback,...
IBM's AI 'Bob' Could Be Manipulated to Download and Execute Malware
IBM’s beta AI coding assistant, Bob, is vulnerable to indirect prompt injection, allowing attackers to embed hidden commands in emails or calendar entries. Researchers at Prompt Armor demonstrated that the tool can be tricked into downloading and executing arbitrary shell...
Cloudways in 60 Minutes: The Ultimate in Simplified Cloud Hosting
Cloudways markets itself as a managed cloud hosting platform that simplifies WordPress deployments, offering plans starting at $12 per month. The author completed a full WordPress site setup, including a WooCommerce demo, in under an hour, highlighting the platform’s intuitive...
Modernize Your Business Communication for Less with Quo’s All-in-One Phone System
Quo introduces a cloud‑based all‑in‑one phone system aimed at startups and small businesses, offering a 7‑day free trial and a 20% discount on the first three months. The platform unifies calls, texts, and team collaboration without requiring additional hardware, and...
Samsung Warns of TV Price Hikes as AI Eats All the Chips
Samsung warned that ongoing memory‑chip shortages could force price hikes on its new TVs, especially entry‑level and mid‑range models. The shortage is driven by AI’s massive demand for high‑bandwidth DRAM and DDR5, which has diverted capacity from consumer‑grade memory. Samsung,...
Dreame Is a Victim of Its Own Robovac Success – the New X60 Max Ultra Looks Amazing, but I'm Struggling...
Dreame unveiled its flagship robot vacuum, the X60 Max Ultra Complete, at CES 2026. The new model is slimmer at 3.13 in, positioning it as the industry’s thinnest vacuum, and adds a high‑temperature mop‑wash dock that can both clean and dry pads....
EU Antitrust Regulators to Decide on Google's Wiz Acquisition
European antitrust regulators will issue a decision on Google’s $32 billion acquisition of cloud‑security firm Wiz by February 10, 2026. The deal would be Alphabet’s biggest ever purchase and is also under review by the U.S. Department of Justice. Google has pledged...
Forget Fitness Trackers — External Brains Are the Hot New Wearables at CES This Year
At CES 2024, AI‑powered wearables marketed as "second brains" stole the spotlight from traditional fitness trackers. Devices like Pebble's Index O1 smart ring, SwitchBot's AI MindClip lapel pin, and Lenovo's Qira pendant let users capture voice notes, transcribe conversations, and...
SwitchBot's New Gadget Clips to Your Collar and Records Your Conversations, so You'll Never Have to Pay Attention Ever Again
SwitchBot unveiled the AI MindClip at CES 2026, a lightweight collar‑mounted gadget that continuously records conversations and stores them in an encrypted, searchable database. The device offers a cloud‑based subscription that uses AI to generate summaries, to‑do lists, and multilingual transcription in...
NordPass Adds Built-In TOTP Authenticator for Personal Accounts
NordPass has integrated a time‑based one‑time password (TOTP) authenticator directly into its password‑manager app for personal accounts. The new feature includes biometric verification and allows users to autofill codes from the mobile app or browser extension without switching apps. Setup...
Gmail Is Getting a Whole Host of AI Updates to Try and Solve Your Most Irritating Workplace Tasks
Google announced a suite of AI-powered upgrades for Gmail, branding the rollout as the start of the "Gemini era." New tools include an AI Inbox that flags priority messages, AI Overviews that condense email content into brief answers, and an...
Razer Joins AI Bandwagon with External AI Accelerator Backed by Iconic AMD Chip Architect
Razer unveiled the Forge AI Dev Workstation at CES 2026, a high‑performance, on‑premise system built for AI training, inference and simulation. The tower supports up to four professional Nvidia or AMD GPUs, Threadripper PRO or Intel Xeon W CPUs, eight DDR5 slots,...
'It's a Good Idea': Jensen Huang Hints that Nvidia Could Consider Bringing Back Older Graphics Cards to Solve GPU Pricing...
At CES 2026 Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hinted that the company could resurrect older GeForce GPUs or retrofit them with the latest AI‑driven DLSS technology to alleviate current supply constraints and soaring prices. He described the idea as "good" but warned...
If AI Can’t Hear You, It Can’t Help You: Why Clear Audio Drives Real Productivity
Organizations seeking to maximize AI‑powered productivity must prioritize audio quality. High‑fidelity microphones and intelligent processing ensure natural language and emotional nuance are captured, enabling tools like Microsoft Copilot to function effectively. Investing in certified, platform‑integrated audio solutions reduces meeting friction,...
Lenovo Unveils the AI Tools It Hopes Will Supercharge Your Productivity at Work
Lenovo announced a suite of AI‑powered productivity tools at CES 2026, highlighted by Qira, a personal AI platform that synchronises intelligence across smartphones, PCs and tablets. The company also introduced Smart Modes, Smart Share and Smart Care features for its new...
Return of the SLI: Lenovo's New Workstation PC Supports up to Two RTX 5060 Ti GPUs for AI Inference -...
Lenovo introduced the ThinkCentre X Tower workstation at CES 2026, offering a dual‑RTX 5060 Ti configuration that aggregates 32 GB of GDDR7 VRAM for AI inference. The system can also be equipped with a single RTX 5090 32 GB card, and it includes a secretive 1 TB...
Deepfakes and Distrust: How Human Provenance Can Rebuild Digital Confidence
Deepfake creation is exploding, with the UK government forecasting eight million AI‑generated forgeries to be shared in 2024, up from half a million last year. Fraud linked to synthetic media surged 3,000 percent in 2023, costing financial institutions an average $500,000...
RAM Prices Are Terrifying, so Nvidia Wants to Turn Your Amazon Fire TV Stick Into a Gaming PC
At CES 2026 Nvidia unveiled native GeForce Now support for Linux PCs and Amazon Fire TV sticks, letting gamers stream RTX 4080 and RTX 5080‑level performance via its Ultimate membership. The rollout follows earlier Steam Deck integration and arrives as RAM and storage costs...
New PlayStation Tech Patent Called Ghost Player Will Take over Players' Games when They Get Stuck
Sony has filed a patent for an AI-driven "Ghost Player" that can intervene when a PlayStation gamer gets stuck, either by demonstrating solutions or taking full control of the game. The system would be trained on gameplay footage from YouTube,...
'Microslop' Is Heading for Edge – Major Browser Redesign Is Inspired by Copilot, and It's Already Seriously Unpopular
Microsoft is testing a major UI overhaul for Edge that closely mirrors the design of its Copilot app, including shared colors, fonts, and rounded corners. The new look appears in the Canary and Dev builds and applies universally, regardless of...